Video: Control a computer using your brain

cMatthew Nagle was paralysed from the neck down after being stabbed several years ago, but technology gave him hope. He was one of four testing BrainGate, a new technology where a chip that picks up electrical pulses is implanted in the brain.

Chip implant picks up electrical impulses

By
Nick Barber
| 17 Mar 2008

Matthew Nagle was paralysed from the neck down after being stabbed several years ago, but technology gave him hope. He was one of four testing BrainGate, a new technology where a chip that picks up electrical pulses is implanted in the brain.

The chip is implanted just beneath the patient’s skull and is only a few millimeters square. Watch the video below to see Matthew playing a computer game and completing other tasks without the aid of a mouse, a keyboard or a joystick.